Tao Lu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Social Networks / Platform Economy
Online Word-of-Mouth
Artificial Intelligence in Business
Quantitative Asset Pricing
Distribution Uncertainty / Ambiguity
Education
2020 - Ph.D. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017 - Mphil. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2015 - B.S. Tsinghua University
Working Experience
09/2020 - Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
Honors & Awards
Innovation Research Award of China Information Economics Society (2022)
Selected Publications
Lu, T., Yuan, M., Wang, A., Zhang, X. (2022) Histogram Distortion Bias in Consumer Choices. Management Science.
Lu, T., Zhang, L., Zhang, X., Zhao, Z. (2024) Beyond Risk: A Measure of Distribution Uncertainty. Information Systems Research.
Tang, Z., Lu, T., Li, T. (2024) Metric-Independent Mitigation of Unpredefined Bias in Machine Classification. Intelligent Computing.
Books
Zhang, M., Lu, T.., Shi, C. Navigating the Factor Zoo: The Science of Quantitative Investing.
Selected working papers
Tianyi Li, Tao Lu, Zhoufei Tang, Michael Zhang. Propose and Review: Interactive Bias Mitigation for Machine Classifiers. Available at SSRN 4139244
Sijia Ma, Chong (Alex) Wang, Michael Zhang, Tao Lu. Beauty and Trust: An Experimental Study of Digital Photo Enhancement.
Tao Lu, Hao Yin, Michael Zhang. Peer-to-peer Social Advertisement Pricing Model.
